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Majority would fail this
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Classik
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I could do a test now. Bring 2 pots to the boil. Place 1 egg in a pot and 50 in another. After 10 mins the 1 egg would probably be cooked but the 50 eggs probably wouldnt have even hit the boil.
Then i could place 50 eggs in 50 seperate pots and boil them. In 10 mins they should have exact same cookedness.
Ok, im not really going to do the test. Cooking 50 eggs in 50 different pots. My family will think i am going crazy.
:toofunny :toofunny
Actually that's (ptobably) the only way to verify this: pracitsie it.
We may try that...but not in those women's kitchen. They'd call the cops
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Way to imprecise a question! First, you don't really "boil" an egg. You bring it to a temperature somewhere between 155 degrees (soft, uniform, firm white and liquid yoke0 to 180 degrees (firm white and yoke, with the yoke somewhat congealed, somewhat crumbly). Now, which style egg do you want? Or do you want something in between?
Tell me what I'm fixing and I'll tell you h lowong I'm going to cook them.
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I'm not as good a cook as my fiance, but I'm close, so I don't need any help. How do you think I knew this stuff in the first place? :D
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I raised my kids by myself. I taught my daughter to cook. I've known this for years. I've known Liz for eight months. And besides, she's at work and I couldn't reach her to ask her if I wanted to. :D
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At my house? About 8-10 years considering we hard boil less than a dozen eggs a year ;)
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Nope. Didn't want to learn. Had to later on, so I taught myself. Trial and error (Those were gruesome days, brother!)
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Are you kidding?? The cat and dog wouldn't even stay in the kitchen when some of those things were served!
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You failed to say "ceteris paribus" or "with other things the same," or "all other things being equal or held constant."
So this one, who is not a guru, would mention several factors (just to start). The starting temperature of the water, of the eggs themselves, the altitude and pressure of the atmosphere to list just a few. If you are taking a chemistry class right now, you might recall your teacher talking about Gay-Lussac's law of P1/T1 = P2/T2. Therefore, given that the volume is constant, as the pressure changes from 1 atm to a lower number, say .5, temperature must also change in proportion to the atmosphere to fit the equation. The temperature would decrease by 1/2.
Others have already discussed the number of pots and how many eggs per pot, but nobody so far has mentioned the size of the egg or the quantity (volume) of the water in each pot. What about covering the pots? That would keep the escaping heat trapped to a degree and cause the water to boil faster. Are there different kinds of eggs? Could we compare the time it takes to cook a robin's egg to the time it takes to cook 50 alligator eggs or for that matter, petrified eggs? Paper eggs? The weather would play a factor, if the environment was warmer or colder, and the relative humidity would too. But what about gravity you say? Yes, I imagine that too would play a part as would the relative speed that one was traveling at, for we are all currently spinning along a spiraling path and then there would be the distance and gravitational fields of close and far planets, as well as close and far stars. Could a magnetic field come into play here? What about microwaves? There is too much to consider. Would the water be pure? Ionized or Salt Water? What if sugar were added or Mercury for that matter? If sugar was allowed, how much? A teaspoon or fifty pounds? When we consider that the universe is expanding rapidly, would the time that the test began mean anything? What if we waited 50 billion years and the earth and all the eggs were gone? Would there be any different types of pots allowed? What about copper bottom pots or cast iron? And now we are starting to scratch the surface, certainly some of those factors would have greater or lesser effect, but what about the temperature of the flame or the burner they were placed on. If the temperature of burner or fire was a mere 150° Fahrenheit (65.5° Celsius) and if the test were performed at sea level (on earth under otherwise "normal" conditions) I would dare say it would take a considerable amount time, but who is to say what is "normal"? Certainly not me. Would the pot be watched or not? I've heard that a watched pot never boils. Could we use a magnifying glass to assist the heating process? And if we could, what about shooting them eggs with a machine gun (or a tank?) and getting them all runny while splashing the water out? Hmmmm? One simply can not compress water, but it could be pumped. What if the water was contained in a spiral shaped container and spun so that cavitation played a part? Would that count?
What about jumping into the pot ourselves and watching the whole process up-close-and-personal or the occasional insertion of a thermometer? Nothing may be measured without that very process effecting that which is being measured. What if the planet was falling into the sun? How fast the rate of fall, what distance?
One simply can not say how long, not without knowing these many things (or at least some of them) and I would guess that if somebody really put their minds to it, there would be five more questions for every one answered here. Are there any electric appliances running nearby? What about birds flying overhead? Could they make "donations" to the process? Pretty sure that would cause our clocks to ding-a-ling-a-ling. What say you?
Oh, you've already said, "Majority would fail this," and it seems that I would agree. Thank you for the opportunity of yet another trip down Absurdity Lane, brought to you by your neighborhood Sparrow.
Wait! Did you say eggs? Murderer! (says the bird)
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